The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Le Quang Dung, a gold medalist at the 2017 International Mathematical Olympiad, has co-authored the first paper in a series of studies tackling a major unsolved problem in Bayesian nonparametrics that ...

Correction & clarification: This article was updated to remove incorrect details about math courses and departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Math professor ...

Only a few months ago, the question felt mostly philosophical: if artificial intelligence can help solve open math problems, ...